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My library
Oct. 31st, 2008 02:27 pmI call it my library because it's the library on my road. We didn't move to this road because it has a public library, but we came across it when we moved in, serendipitously. "Oh, look! Someone left a library lying around. I wonder if it works?" Indeed it does, although I didn't become a member until I was unemployed a few years ago, on the grounds of Saving Money. It also restricts (somewhat) the inflow of books and makes me actually read stuff that I borrow, because of having to give it back.
But.
You know how fantasy books (and particularly Young Adult books) tend to be written in trilogies these days? My library never seems to have the whole of a trilogy. For instance, I've been eyeing up Catherine Fisher's Archon for some months now. But it's the second in the trilogy. So after a while I do a search. Book 1 Oracle is available from three other Cambridgeshire libraries, so that I'd have to pay to order it, but book 3, Scarab, has only one copy, held at a different branch library and marked "ZZ do not use". And of Scott Westerfield's Midnighters, books 1 and 3 are there on the shelf, but book 2 is at another branch. I have ordered it with some grinding of teeth.
So what I want to know is, is it a plot to charge me to order books, or a plot to make me actually buy more books, or a well-thought out strategy to rotate the books round the libraries and I just need to wait another three years by which time I will have forgotten what is going on in the plot or why indeed I wanted to read the book in the first place?
But.
You know how fantasy books (and particularly Young Adult books) tend to be written in trilogies these days? My library never seems to have the whole of a trilogy. For instance, I've been eyeing up Catherine Fisher's Archon for some months now. But it's the second in the trilogy. So after a while I do a search. Book 1 Oracle is available from three other Cambridgeshire libraries, so that I'd have to pay to order it, but book 3, Scarab, has only one copy, held at a different branch library and marked "ZZ do not use". And of Scott Westerfield's Midnighters, books 1 and 3 are there on the shelf, but book 2 is at another branch. I have ordered it with some grinding of teeth.
So what I want to know is, is it a plot to charge me to order books, or a plot to make me actually buy more books, or a well-thought out strategy to rotate the books round the libraries and I just need to wait another three years by which time I will have forgotten what is going on in the plot or why indeed I wanted to read the book in the first place?
